The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affaires, Maxime Bernier was forced to resign due to a scandal in his country: Sensitive information were disclosed. The problem was the Minister himself! He forgot documents classified “secret defense” in his girlfriend apartment. This is a big mistake but, unluckily for him, his girlfriend
Category: People / Places
nsa.gov Offline During a Few Hours
The name servers hosting the National Security Agency (aka nsa.gov) were reported unavailable during a few hours around May the 15th. How is this possible? Let start some investigations using dig. When you query a root-server and ask for the name servers (NS records) of the nsa.gov zone, you receive
To Respect the Online Privacy
The Belgian law does not allow personal data (names, pictures, addresses, …) to be published online without the formal acceptance of the owner (Private life protection law). A few weeks ago, my youngest daughter visited a farm with her school and teachers took pictures. They would like to publish a
About the Estonian 2007 Cyber War
An interesting article about the cyber was which hit Estonia in 2007: http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf
Ooops! I Made a Boo Boo!
Do you have a good backup? Read the following story. Having redundant disk systems (RAID), database replicas and high-availability servers is not enough! More than third of data lost is caused by human mistakes! A good backup procedure is mandatory, with off-site storage of course. Last advice: the procedure must
Users Learn More with Fun
From a end-user point of view, security is boring. It’s part of the human behaviour: if it’s too much annoying, people will not follow the rules! Even more in the IT security domain. I read the following story on the CISSP forum today. The question was: “We are doing a
Big Brother is *really* Watching You!
Take care if you travel to the United States. It was a long story but finally authorities have now the right to analyze data contained on hard drives! The US Court of Appeal confirmed their rights to check the files stored on incoming notebooks! Source: http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/actualites/lire-les-douaniers-americains-ont-bien-le-droit\ -de-copier-les-disques-durs-des-visiteurs-18062.html (French link)
TG’08
In a previous post, I talked about WeatherMap. A reader sent me this very nice map: The Gathering (aka TG) is a major data party event in Norway happening in the Easter. Check once how much bandwidth is used! Amazing!
Birthday cakes
This weekend, it was the birthday party of my daughters (7 & 5 years old). It was a good opportunity to test something new. Very easy to do and always appreciated by the children: the pirate cake! 😉
Showers!
Very bad weather conditions in Bretagne today!